Using Nornir Nautobot

Nornir is a Python-based automation framework that has grown in popularity for network automation. It provides an alternative to Ansible for those who want an automation framework without a domain-specific language (DSL), but it also provides a framework that can be used by other Python applications and projects such as Nautobot! This makes Nornir and Nautobot a great match for their use in Nautobot Jobs and Apps.

This book assumes some background in Nornir already as we aren’t covering Nornir basics. Our goal is to introduce Nornir Nautobot, which is a project that provides a set of utilities to simplify using Nautobot with Nornir. Specifically, Nornir Nautobot contains an inventory plugin (similar to what we just covered with Ansible) as well as a series of plugins to simplify doing network automation tasks.

In this section, we will review how to get started with the Nornir inventory plugin so that you can use Nautobot as an inventory source for...